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A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural narratives formed during his lifetime. These include the romanticism of the ailing spirit, tragically singing its death-song as life ebbs; the Polish expatriate, helpless witness to the martyrdom of his beloved homeland, exiled among friendly but uncomprehending strangers; the sorcerer-bard of dream, memory, and Gothic terror; and the pianist's pianist, shunning the appreciative crowds yet composing and improvising idealized operas, scenes, dances, and narratives in the shadow of virtuoso-idol Franz Liszt. The international Chopin scholars gathered here demonstrate the ways in which Chopin responded to and was understood to exemplify these narratives, as an artist of his own time and one who transcended it.
This collection also offers recently rediscovered artistic representations of his hands (with analysis), and--for the first time in English--an extended tribute to Chopin published in Poland upon his death and contemporary Polish writings contextualizing Chopin's compositional strategies. The contributors are Jonathan D. Bellman, Leon Botstein, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Halina Goldberg, Jeffrey Kallberg, David Kasunic, Anatole Leikin, Eric McKee, James Parakilas, John Rink, and Sandra P. Rosenblum. Contemporary documents by Karol Kurpi?ski, Adam Mickiewicz, and Jozef Sikorski are included.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix Permissions x Introduction 1 Halina Goldberg and Jonathan D. Bellman I Contemporary Cultural Contexts Chopin's Oneiric Soundscapes and the Role of Dreams in Romantic Culture 15 Halina Goldberg Jozef Sikorski's "Recollection of Chopin": The Earliest Essay on Chopin and His Music 45 Translated by John Comber Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg Chopin and the Gothic 85 Anatole Leikin Revisiting Chopin's Tubercular Song, or, An Opera in the Making 103 David Kasunic Chopin and Jews 123 Jeffrey Kallberg II Musical and Pianistic Contexts Middlebrow Becomes Transcendent: The Popular Roots of Chopin's Musical Language 147 Jonathan D. Bellman Karol Kurpinski on the Musical Expression Of Polish National Sentiment 171 Translated by John Comber Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Polonaise 187 Eric Mckee The Barcarolle and the Barcarolle: Topic and Genre in Chopin 231 James Parakilas Chopin and Improvisation 249 John Rink Chopin Among the Pianists in Paris 271 Sandra P. Rosenblum The Hand of Chopin: Documents and Commentary 297 Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger Translated by Virginia E. Whealton Afterword Chopin and the Consequences of Exile 315 Leon Botstein Index 357 Notes on Contributors 366
